Re: Transparent decompression with file system filter

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 04:49:24PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2008 7:19 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 31 December 2007 17:59, Bean wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Changes in this new patch:
> > >
> > > 1, change function name grub_file_open_raw to grub_file_ropen
> > > 2, replace grub_file_open in command/blocklist.c and
> > > util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c to grub_file_ropen.
> > >
> > > If nobody objects, i would like to commit this in a few days.
> >
> > Please wait a minute. Personally, I don't want grub_file_open to decompress a
> > content automatically. The name should stand for what it does. That was why I
> > named grub_file_open and grub_gzfile_open like this. This was really one of
> > what I didn't like in GRUB Legacy.
> >
> > If you want to have a function to open any kind of compressed file, please add
> > something else (e.g. grub_compressed_file_open).
> 
> ok, i keep grub_file_open as it is, and add a new function
> grub_zfile_open to handle compressed file.

How does grub_zfile_open differ from grub_gzfile_open ?

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